<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460207" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Rock, Stone, Sand, Wind, Time, Eternity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">the sculptor, <br>called to the great task; through<br>the huge columns, ringing echoes even with a sandal’s tread, <br>the stone chamber, <br>the assembled court, gold, enamelled blue, <br>eyes everywhere, walls, men, <br>the Pharoah’s presence: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘show me as I am: <br>man as lion, <br>king of the living and the dead; <br>show me as eternity’</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the frail old man in heavy robes, <br>the courtiers nodding, smirking…</div><div style="margin:10px 0">more men than men could count<br>whipped to task under a burning noonday sun; <br>behind, a half-built pyramid; <br>slaves chipped away the ancient bedrock<br>according to the careful measurements, <br>blocking out the figure, until the day<br>the sculptor himself – and older now –<br>mounts the scaffold to begin chipping<br>the face of time that meets eternity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">‘time says nothing but I told you so’; <br>which Pharaoh died before his monument? <br>five thousand years before our own stone dreams, <br>how many years of scaffolding? <br>a temple hollowing between its long, long paws.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">was it looked upon with awe, or<br>as meaningless to children, <br>to their children’s children, <br>as the frozen gesturing bronzes of our public squares? they, <br>running off around the back of it<br>to clamber onto its stone tail? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">the night wind already piling up the drifting sand, <br>night wind in palm leaves whispering of metaphor, <br>green shores lost under dunes of time; <br>wind and sand sculpting their own unanswered question: <br>what is the reason we should ask of time? <br>what is the question whose answer is timelessness?</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460207" data-title="Rock, Stone, Sand, Wind, Time, Eternity de Michael Shepherd" data-description="the sculptor, called to the great task; through the huge columns, ringing echoes even with a sandal’s tread, the stone chamber, the assembled court, gold, enamelled blue, eyes everywhere, walls, men, the Pharoah’s presence: ‘show me a..."></div> </div> </div>

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